The AGC is a dissident group of the AUC, the paramilitary umbrella organization that demobilized under former President Alvaro Uribe between 2003 and 2006.

The group is suspected of controlling most of the country’s drug trafficking exports to the United States.

The AGC has also been accused of carrying out politically and economically motivated assassinations and illegal mining.

The group announced the ceasefire in December to push forward their proposal to demobilize.

This process has however been stalled in Congress, which was asked to approve legislation that would allow the group’s collective surrender to justice.

In spite of the group’s ceasefire, authorities and civilians have reported hostilities between the paramilitaries and their rivals, the ELN guerrilla group and dissidents of the FARC, a guerrilla group that demobilized last year.

Authorities have long been accused of colluding with paramilitary groups, particularly in regions like Cordoba where the state is traditionally weak.

Second policeman arrested over north Colombia cop killings was last modified: February 27th, 2018 by Adriaan Alsema